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Summer viewing
Top television recommendations for the summer from Adam LeBor
In praise of short shows
Sometimes, enough is enough
Are you not entertained?
The emptiness of popular culture
The TV boss who decides what you watch
Or does he?
Boats and bombs
A Netflix winner, a Netflix disappointment and a classic American hero on Amazon Prime
Struggles of the Sussexes
What kind of future do Harry and Meghan have?
Ends of empires
Two compulsive, immersive and vivid end-of-empire series
Take the Bizkit
How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016
Eastern promise
Three worthy TV shows now streaming that allow you to zip around the world with a few clicks
The conversion of Jeffrey Dahmer
How should we think about evil?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles